Blake D. Petersen

Assistant Professor of Biology at Baldwin Wallace University. Educator, scientist, microbiologist. Fascinated by how tiny things move 🧫. (he/him/his)

[Blake D. Petersen @petersenblaked]

@RuthlessRuth15 This was impressive work Ruth! We chose the BioRxiv version for a journal club in my upper level micro course last fall, and students had lots of great thoughts and discussion!

[Blake D. Petersen @petersenblaked]

Wrapping up summer research with these 3 outstanding students. I’m so proud of what these three have accomplished this summer, and am excited for them to share their work in the future!

[Blake D. Petersen @petersenblaked]

Not that I’m super active here (more of a lurker than an active poster), but recent changes call for bluer skies and greener pastures. You can find me @blakedpetersen.bsky.social if you’d like to connect!

[Will Ratcliff @wc_ratcliff]

Several years ago, I wrote a 2-page guide on how to give a killer narratively-driven scientific talk. I called it "The David Attenborough Method", in homage to the master storyteller. https://t.co/fROAFOYNBM

I recently expanded upon it in a short essay: https://t.co/vh4Jt0g1PP

[Blake D. Petersen @petersenblaked]

@YouTooBio Thank you for sharing your thoughts! I'm curious about your exams and revisions (hoping to try myself!). Would you be willing to share an example of a take-home exam or the question format? And how do you grade revisions (full-credit/half-credit/etc.?)

[Jane @sciencebun]

Trying to plan a way to show my UG students real scientific research talks before they present their own senior capstone... without $$ to bring in outside speakers. Anyone willing to send recorded talks!?! #PUI #scienceeducation #chemistry #biochemistry #sciencetwitter

[Blake D. Petersen @petersenblaked]

@TennessenLab

[Jane @sciencebun]

As a new chemistry faculty member at a teaching institution (PUI), are there any grants I can apply for to help pay for student research projects (small scale) and equipment for teaching and research? #AcademicChatter #grantwriting #Science

[Blake D. Petersen @petersenblaked]

@manzilllla @SoakSoapworks @SwitchyardPark Couldn’t make it this weekend, but we are enjoying the soaps we got recently!

[Blake D. Petersen @petersenblaked]

If you love science and art (who doesn’t?), consider checking out this awesome Kickstarter about anti microbial resistance! We need more science art in this world

[Resist NOW 💊 Open for orders now! @AMR_comics]

We are live!!

Resist NOW will be a science fiction comic about antimicrobial resistance made by 7 different science artists who work together with awesome scientists to highlight their research!

Support us on @Kickstarter !
https://t.co/xyOhnXrNuv

[Blake D. Petersen @petersenblaked]

@markowenmartin It may not be official recognition, but I certainly appreciate your Sci + Art efforts and successes from afar! It’s something I’m inspired by and aspire to do after graduating!

[Julia van Kessel @Biolluminator]

Very happy to present an awesome collab with @papenfortlab @manzilllla and several undergrad and grad students, led by @petersenblaked and Chelsea Simpson.

[Blake D. Petersen @petersenblaked]

@NatRosMel So glad you finally got your pup!

[Blake D. Petersen @petersenblaked]

Days 3/7 of #mylifeinpictures lockdown edition!

no people, no explanations

[Blake D. Petersen @petersenblaked]

@meghanrussell99 If you haven’t yet, the documentary “13th” on Netflix is a really sobering but enlightening watch about that oppression that is still going on today

[Blake D. Petersen @petersenblaked]

Day 2/7 #mylifeinpictures lockdown edition

No words no explanations

[Blake D. Petersen @petersenblaked]

Day 1/7 of #mylifeinpictures lockdown edition. Nominated by @Shizkid but I’m gonna sit out nominating others lol.

[Blake D. Petersen @petersenblaked]

@manzilllla I haven’t been as productive as I would be on campus/in lab. So I’ve been doing small chunks of work and focusing on the high priority work. And then celebrating little victories 😊

[Blake D. Petersen @petersenblaked]

Excited to share my first pre-print as a graduate student! We compared our lab type strain and a natural V. campbellii isolate and found surprising variation. Glad to have worked alongside our lab manager Chelsea and all our collaborators (including several undergrads!)

[bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv_micrbio]

Vibrio campbellii DS40M4 is a tractable model strain that diverges from the canonical quorum-sensing regulatory circuit in vibrios https://t.co/7PMFYrEuQ1 #biorxiv_micrbio

[Blake D. Petersen @petersenblaked]

@markowenmartin @baym @univpugetsound @ASMicrobiology I like the Atlus one. Makes you look like you’re about to give a news piece to the microbial world!